Grounding Collaborative Knowledge Building
in Semantics-Based Critiquing In this paper we investigate the use of Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA), Critiquing Systems, and Knowledge Building to support computer-based teaching of English composition. We have built and tested an English Composition Critiquing System that make use of LSA to analyze student essays and compute feedback by comparing their essays with teacher's model essays.
LSA values are input to a critiquing component to provide a user interface for the students. A software agent can also use the critic feAuthor(s): MÃ¸rch Anders,Cheung William,Wong Kelvin,Liu Jimin

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Copyright in relation to Wendy Cope The Poetry Foundation website features an article and user comments on using Wendy Cope's poetry and how she enforces her copyright strongly. It discusses the issues around using Cope's and other's poetry in your own work.Author(s): Borthwick, Kate

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"Get the Rope!" Anti-German Violence in World War I-era Wisconsin In the early 20th century, German Americans were the nation's largest immigrant group. Although they were regarded as a model of successful assimilation, they faced vicious--and sometimes violent--attacks on their loyalty when the United States went to war against Germany in 1917. The most notorious incident was the lynching of German-born Robert Prager in Colinsville, Illinois, in April 1918. Other incidents stopped just short of murder. In a statement made on October 22, 1918, John Deml, a farAuthor(s): No creator set

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'Grease' Vocal Rehearsal Vocalists for the upcoming SUNY Oswego production of "Grease" rehearsing.Author(s): No creator set

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"City of Louisville" near Madison, Indiana The ship was built in 1894, in Jeffersonville, Indiana by the Howard Company. It was 301 feet long and 42.7 feet wide x 7 feet deep. It was built for the Louisville-Cincinnati trade and had 72 staterooms. In April, 1894, she completed a record run from Louisville to Cincinnati of 9 hours and 42 minutes. She was lost in ice in Cincinnati in January, 1918.Author(s): Creator not set